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Near Nuff Sculpin

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Note: This recipe has not been verified against a documented source, or disagrees with one. Treat the materials and steps as unconfirmed.

Dressed Irons dressing

  • Hook Tiemco 5263, 4-10
  • Thread Wapsi UTC 210 and Uni-Thread , Brown 8/0

Materials

  • Body Foundation 022 Hard Mason
  • Tail Grizzly Hen, Golden Brown
  • Body Whitlock's SLF, Nearnuff Sculpin Golden Brown
  • Flash Krystal Flash or Flash Accent, Copper or Brown
  • Hackle Grizzly Hen, Golden Brown
  • Dubbing Whitlock's SLF, Nearnuff Sculpin Golden Brown
  • Eyes/Weight Small/Medium Dumbbell Eyes, painted black/white/yellow and coated with epoxy

How to tie it

  1. Bind medium lead eyes on top of the shank at the front third so the fly rides hook-point up.
  2. At the bend tie in a short, sparse marabou tail. Sculpins are stubby, so keep it stubby.
  3. Tie in a webby soft hackle and dub a tapered sculpin-olive body forward to just behind the eyes.
  4. Palmer the soft hackle forward in 4-5 open turns for pulsing legs and tie off behind the eyes.
  5. Tie a splayed pair of hen hackle tips flat against each side as the broad pectoral fins.
  6. Dub a bushy head, figure-8'd around the eyes, to fill out the wide sculpin skull.
  7. Whip finish at the eye and cement.

Other versions

2 more in the app: Fly Fish Food Tie, variant 1, Fly Fish Food Tie, variant 2.

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